Fun With Composers - A Simple, Fun Approach to Classical Music!

Classical Music and Your Child

Creativity is a form of problem solving, involving problems which are neither easy to solve nor do they have any standard or conventional solutions. Creativity involves adaptability and flexibility of thought.

Educators believe these skills are critical for the success of students, and that the focus of creativity should remain on the “generation of ideas.”

Fun with Composers’ approach advocates this process, encouraging teachers and parents to stimulate the child’s imagination through storytelling and then incorporate their ideas at every opportunity.

Can classical music make your child smarter?
Plato once said that music “is a more potent instrument than any other for education.” Now scientists know why. Music they believe, trains the brain for higher forms of thinking.

Research has proven that music exercises the same neurons used for mathematics and spatial reasoning. Music is the only activity that involves using both the right and
left sides of the brain simultaneously. The skill for doing mazes, reading maps, copying patterns, and drawing shapes has been shown to improve with exposure to complex musical sounds. This skill later translates into complex math and engineering skills. “Early music training can enhance a child’s ability to reason,” says Irvine physicist, Gordon Shaw.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, studied the power of music by observing two groups of preschoolers. One group took piano lessons and sang daily in chorus. The other did not. After eight months the musical three year olds were expert puzzle-masters, scoring eighty percent higher than their playmates in spatial intelligence!